A source familiar with the internal operations of FVAP provides us the following email which was sent this morning: Dear Election Official, On Friday, a transport aircraft crashed at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan and was destroyed along with 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to Afghanistan. We do not know if there were any ballots in the destroyed mail, but all of the mail was bound for the zip code 09382 (Shindand, Farah, and Camp Stone (also known as Herat)). If you have sent any ballots to the zip code 09382, we recommend you attempt to contact the voter and resend a new ballot, as the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire. Voting Assistance Officers will be informing Service members in the area impacted by this incident to submit a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB). Thank you for all that you do for military and overseas voters. If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 800-438-8683 or send an email to Paddy J. McGuire Deputy Director for Election Official Assistance Federal Voting Assistance Program 571-372-0739 – direct (note the new number) 703-589-8980 – mobile
Military Ballots Lost in Afghan Crash?
A source familiar with the internal operations of FVAP provides us the following email which was sent this morning: Dear Election Official, On Friday, a transport aircraft crashed at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan and was destroyed along with 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to Afghanistan. We do not know if there were any ballots in the destroyed mail, but all of the mail was bound for the zip code 09382 (Shindand, Farah, and Camp Stone (also known as Herat)). If you have sent any ballots to the zip code 09382, we recommend you attempt to contact the voter and resend a new ballot, as the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire. Voting Assistance Officers will be informing Service members in the area impacted by this incident to submit a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB). Thank you for all that you do for military and overseas voters. If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 800-438-8683 or send an email to Paddy J. McGuire Deputy Director for Election Official Assistance Federal Voting Assistance Program 571-372-0739 – direct (note the new number) 703-589-8980 – mobile